Centre for Ageing and the Life Course (CALC)

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Centre for Ageing and the Life Course (CALC) fosters research in critical and cultural ageing studies, exploring the underpinning factors (material, cultural, and life course) shaping inequalities in ageing, as well as the subjective meaning and lived experience of health and well-being in later life.

CALC takes a life course approach, understanding that both causal factors resulting in illness or other experiences of inequality and disadvantage in later life - and the interventions that can ameliorate them - appear earlier in the life course. Mid-life in particular constitutes a critical stage, but conditions in childhood and adolescence also underpin events and experiences later in life. Our focus is intersectional and interdisciplinary as we explore (older) age and ageing from the perspective of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, socio-economic demographics, chronic illness, disability, and place.

Led by social scientists, our members' disciplinary backgrounds cover a wide variety of disciplines including: arts and the humanities, public health, clinical medicine, and biological science. In true interdisciplinary fashion, we strive to address questions of concern to age and ageing by employing the most appropriate mix of theoretical and practical frameworks.

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University of Liverpool
Liverpool